I want a burger...and a beignet.

HAPPY MARDI GRAS/ FAT TUESDAY EVERYONE!

Hope y'all are having a great day. Today was a good day. Week 6 of C25K has commenced. The run was pretty good. I've gotten used to running on the small incline and I pray that's going to help when I transition to the road shortly. On Sunday the gym in my apartment complex (it's free and decent so why would I pay to go somewhere?) was busy with myself and 4 other people. Now to be fair, it's a small place compared to a Planet Fitness or Gold's Gym, but it felt great to have other people around me! Today I had one other lady working out with me. I LOVE having other people around working out with me. Although, a few year ago I would always get discouraged and try to beat out other people. Now I just feel this wonderful sense of community and seeing all body types makes me happy. No matter how big or small, slow or fast, toned or not, we're all there to improve ourselves in some way.

"You, you may say 
I'm a dreamer, 
but I'm not the only one..." ~ John Lennon, Imagine

I haven't been so happy, positive, and optimistic in a long, long time. Whether it is the running, better food, or both, I'm going to try and stay this way for as long as possible. I'm expecting to hit a wall when I transition to running outdoors since it is much harder, but I'm ready for it. 

So how's the dieting going? Ah, well, yeah...going I guess? I'm stuffing my body with better foods but the past week I kept waking up between 1-4 am STARVING. No, I'm not being a drama queen. The hunger pains were so bad I tried going back to sleep for an hour before giving up and going to get some cereal (fiber one, mmm) and OJ. Within 30 minutes, my stomach stops hurting and it is time for me to go back to sleepy land. My whole weekend was the attack of the stomach pains. So I upped my calorie intake 100 calories and now I'm just praying I'll be able to lose weight. I was scared going from 1550 to 1750 calories when I first started and it worked like a charm. Now I'm at 1800 cal a day. A day?! OMG...I'm going to be so massive I mean really you can only lose weight on 1200 cal a day riiiiiight?!! Naw, eff that. I like food.

I'd love a juicy cheeseburger and some kind of fried dough dessert right now. So why don't I go get one you ask? Well, I don't know who has a good burger around here. At home, it was ALWAYS the Ale House. Those burgers...oh yums! Fast food burgers? I do have a Burger King AND a McDonalds within a 2 minute drive. The problem is what my body does with fast food burgers. It's fine when I'm eating. It's the hour or two after that isn't so fine. My body still tolerates Arbys (mmm roast beef), but it isn't a juicy cheeseburger. I'd make one but I forgot to get ground beef at the store. -_- I'm too lazy to go and fight the crowd to get some.

Who'd have thunk that my laziness that helped me gain weight, now helps me stay away from fast food? Not me, captain, not me.

So the scallops and creamy orzo I made last night will have to do. Seriously, spend the extra money at the seafood counter and get the fresh stuff. The scallops are so sweet. Here's a link to the recipe: http://sugarandspice-celeste.blogspot.com/2013/01/creamy-orzo-with-bay-scallops-asparagus.html

Now to make that recipe not so fatty, I substituted fat free half and half (who knew they made that? I didn't!) for the heavy cream and used only 2 tbsp of butter and 2 tbsp of olive oil. When I ran it through the calorie calculator it came out to be 466 cal per serving and it makes 6 servings. So tasty!

Well, hope everyone enjoys their Fat Tuesday! For the love of all the is good and holy, someone eat a fried dough product for me today! Mmm.

Mileage: 2.80